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Trump pardons nearly all Jan. 6 defendants on inauguration day

by January 21, 2025
January 21, 2025
Trump pardons nearly all Jan. 6 defendants on inauguration day

President Donald Trump pardoned nearly all Jan. 6 defendants on Monday night, after promising at his inaugural parade to sign an executive order on the matter. 

Sitting at the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office, Trump signed off on releasing more than 1,500 charged with crimes stemming from the Jan. 6, 2021, attack at the U.S. Capitol. The order requires the Federal Bureau of Prisons to act immediately on receipt of the pardons.

‘Tonight I’m going to be signing on the J6 hostages, pardons to get them out,’ Trump said at the parade at Capital One Arena in Washington. ‘I’m going to the Oval Office and we’ll be signing pardons for a lot of people.’

Those pardoned include Enrique Tarrio, the former Proud Boys chairman, who faced a sentence of 22 years in prison for seditious conspiracy. Tarrio’s attorney told the Associated Press he expects Tarrio to face release Monday evening. 

Trump previously promised that he would be ‘acting very quickly’ on his first day in office to pardon to the so-called ‘hostages.’  

Former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., called Trump’s pardon ‘shameful,’ and said to remember the ‘courage’ of law enforcement ‘heroes’ who ‘ensured that democracy survived.’ 

‘The President’s actions are an outrageous insult to our justice system and the heroes who suffered physical scars and emotional trauma as they protected the Capitol, the Congress and the Constitution,’ Pelosi, who didn’t attend Trump’s inauguration Monday, said in a statement posted to X, formerly known as Twitter. 

‘It is shameful that the President has decided to make one of his top priorities the abandonment and betrayal of police officers who put their lives on the line to stop an attempt to subvert the peaceful transfer of power,’ Pelosi said. 

The pardon was one of more than 200 executive orders Trump was expected to sign on Inauguration Day. Other directives he signed on Monday include withdrawing the U.S. from the Paris climate agreement that the U.S. initially entered under former President Barack Obama’s administration in 2015. 

Trump previously withdrew the U.S. from the agreement during his first term in 2020. 

On Monday morning, then-President Joe Biden issued a series of pardons just hours before Trump’s swearing in at the U.S. Capitol. Those pardoned by Biden include former chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, retired Gen. Mark Milley, whom Trump has accused of committing treason. Others Biden pardoned were those involved in the Jan. 6 Select Committee investigation that conducted a probe into the attack. 

‘The issuance of these pardons should not be mistaken as an acknowledgment that any individual engaged in any wrongdoing, nor should acceptance be misconstrued as an admission of guilt for any offense,’ Biden said in a statement. ‘Our nation owes these public servants a debt of gratitude for their tireless commitment to our country.’

Fox News’ Anders Hagstrom and Brooke Singman contributed to this report. 

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